[PLUG] Got hacked last night - HELP!

Elliott Mitchell ehem at m5p.com
Wed Oct 6 23:15:03 UTC 2004


>From: "John Meissen" <john at meissen.org>
> Elliott Mitchell said:
> >  Also by not forcing me to do a full distribution update every 6 months, I can
> > avoid even the limited damage Debian's updates do.
> 
> I think this is a little bit exaggerated. I'm not sure what others are
> doing these days, but Mandrake provides updates for a year, or 18 months
> if you don't care about the GUI desktop parts. Their release schedule
> is every 6 months, so you can do it to yourself that often if you want to.

Yes and no. Fedora is also doing a total of 18 month support for the
Fedora Core releases. Still I don't enjoy having to update and risk
having to fix things that often (yes, I'm lazy).


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